Thursday, January 31, 2013

Brazil honors
diplomats that saved Jews from Nazis

BRASILIA, Brazil
(AP) — Two Brazilian diplomats who helped save hundreds of Jews from ending up
in Nazi concentration camps have been honored during an International Holocaust
Remembrance Day ceremony.

The Wednesday night ceremony paid
tribute to Aracy Guimaraes Rosa, a staff member of the Brazilian consulate in
Hamburg in the 1930s and 1940s and Luis Martins de Souza Dantas, Brazil's
ambassador to France during the same period. Both issued hundreds visas to
Jews.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Troops bulldoze
homes, leave thousands homeless

Soldiers wearing
U.N. logos evict whole towns in land grab

By Alex Newman

Thousands of poor
Brazilian families are living in wretched conditions at make-shift refugee
camps after being evicted from their homes at gunpoint by federal forces, some
of whom were sporting United Nations logos, according to sources.

The massive operation, which left an
estimated 7,500 or more people, including thousands of children, homeless was
justified by authorities under the guise of creating an Indian reservation.

Towns literally have been wiped off
the map, and no compensation was offered to the victims. About 400,000 acres of
land were expropriated in the latest operation.

Residents in the Siua-Missu area in
the state of Mato Grosso battled heavily armed federal police and military
forces for weeks using sticks, rocks, Molotov cocktails and other crude
weapons.

In the end, however, the powerful
national government forces were overwhelming.

Virtually all of the residents have
now been displaced, living in squalor, packed into school gymnasiums in nearby
towns. Others are living on charity under plastic tarps propped up with sticks
with no clean water or sewage services.

Leaders of the feeble resistance,
meanwhile, are being hunted down by authorities for punishment.

It was in 1993, shortly after the
first United Nations summit on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, when
the scheme was proposed. The Brazilian government’s executive branch decreed
that the land in question belonged to Indians.

“These areas are marked off with
rushed studies by leftist anthropologists, ideological and hardly scientific,”
Fernando Furquim with the Movement for Peace in the Countryside, a non-profit
organization that supports private property rights, told WND.

“The conflicts between the
productive sector and Indians are assuming greater proportions,” he added.
“Countless non-governmental organizations have appeared, many from abroad, to
involve themselves in the question.”

Brazilian officials, meanwhile, sent
WND an error-riddled statement containing claims that victims were not entitled
to compensation but that some would be re-settled elsewhere if they qualified
under the “agrarian reform” program.

Authorities also told WND that the
U.N. was not involved in the eviction efforts but that the organization’s logos
were on the military equipment and personnel because they had recently returned
from “peace-keeping” abroad.

In Suia-Missu, legal battles ensued
after the executive decree as property owners with valid deeds to their land
fought back. Many of the residents have lived in the area for decades, and some
were born there.

Their properties were mostly
purchased as larger farms in the area and sold off in pieces in recent decades.
Some were inherited from relatives.

The Brazilian courts eventually
ruled that the forced evictions could proceed, so in November, residents were
given 30 days to vacate their land.

Most refused to leave, but heavily
armed Brazilian troops and federal police were too powerful for the poor
farmers in the area to resist.

“The evicted victims are now living
at schools in Alto da Boa Vista and camps, with some being sheltered by
relatives,” Naves Bispo, a local resident and victim of the land-grab scheme,
told WND, adding that the situation was dire and deteriorating.

“None of the people were relocated
by the government, despite the government’s lies,” he noted. “There never
existed a plan for these people, there was just an expulsion: brief, brutal and
grotesque.”

Like other victims and analysts who
spoke with WND, Bispo was unsure about why Brazilian authorities had decided to
create an Indian reservation on land that was never occupied by Indians and was
already lawfully owned.

Official documents obtained by WND
show that in the 1970s, the National Indian Foundation, part of the Brazilian
Justice Ministry, twice confirmed that Indians had never lived on the land in
question.

“I know and feel that we are once
again in a dictatorial state run by followers of Fidel, of Mao, of Che,” Bispo
continued, pointing to the ruling Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) and its
well-documented links to tyrannical regimes in the region.

“This is terror against the poor, a
strongly surging plague, very organized, an affront to democracy in the
Americas,” he added. “I lost my land, my work area, but I will never lose my
ideals.”

Residents resist

While the press was barred from
documenting much of the battle, local news reports showed the true extent of
the human tragedy. Many critics have said it constitutes forced relocation, a
crime against humanity under international agreements.

Gas station owner Arnaldo da Costa,
reportedly the first person to be notified of the evictions, lamented the
situation in a TV interview.

“This is the worst day of my life,
the worst in my 53 years,” he said. “I told the guy to find a place for us,
show me where we’re supposed to go.”

Another man interviewed for the same
segment started his grocery store 30 years ago and was set to lose his life’s
work if forced to leave.

Meanwhile, authorities would not
even let farmers pick their own crops, a young student told the interviewer.

“We planted over 100 acres of rice
that they won’t let us harvest, we wasted 90,000 Brazilian reals ($45,000), and
they simply will not let us harvest it,” she said, crying. “Sad, very sad, sad,
lots of anguish, lots of suffering.”

Some residents, though, were
defiant.

“I am going to stay here until I
die,” Eliezer Rocha told a TV news crew. “I prefer to be killed by a bullet
than to die of a broken heart later without a place to live, without a place to
work.”

The sentiment was widespread as
poverty-stricken locals, on the verge of losing their only means of subsistence
and virtually all of their property, tried to keep federal forces at bay with
improvised weapons and mass demonstrations.

Some residents burned Brazilian
flags while others organized patrols, in vain, to chase the police and military
away.

Local politicians, state lawmakers
and even federal members of the Brazilian Congress spoke out as well.

“Ten people were injured in this
clash,” Brazilian Sen. Jayme Campos from Mato Grosso was quoted as saying in
Brazilian media reports after one of the many battles that raged between
residents and federal troops.

“Any and all aggression by
government forces will correspond inevitably with a violent reaction from the
community,” he said.

Drawing attention to the thousands
of people being forcibly evicted with no place to go, Campos said they were
doing nothing but waging “a desperate fight to maintain the achievements of
their entire life’s work, sweat, and sacrifices.”

To defuse the situation and prevent
deaths, the senator called for a temporary suspension of the evictions and a
change in the Constitution that would allow lawmakers to have some control over
the executive branch’s currently unilateral establishment of “Indian lands”
wherever it chooses.

The “extreme measures” being pursued
by authorities, he said, were inappropriate.

“These rural farmers are willing to
do anything: to kill and be killed,” Sen. Campos observed. “A tragedy can
happen at any moment.”

His pleas, along with those of
fellow lawmakers, fell on deaf ears.

All over

By Jan. 18, Brazilian authorities
claimed that the entire area had been “cleared.”

Many of the structures – homes,
churches, schools, a hospital, playgrounds, farms and more – were already
bulldozed. The rest will be razed soon.

“This is a real shame what is going
on here,” local property owner Paulo Gonçalves, whose land was also expropriated,
told WND in a phone interview. “A great injustice is being committed against
these people. They have nowhere to go, no plan.”

Another local resident, who did not
respond to a request for permission to use his name by press time, told a
similar story.

“My father had 2,000 hectares in the
region and lost everything,” the young man told WND. “He had six employees who
worked directly or indirectly on the farm, and today they are living on charity
and almost suffering from hunger and have had not any help from the federal
government.”

Local media reports showed tearful
residents telling reporters their whole world had come crashing down in an
instant.

“We’re looking for a place to go, I
still don’t know. Everybody left here without knowing where they were going to
go,” Juvenil Moreira, a local farmer, said as tears ran down his face.

“It wasn’t voluntary. They came and
threatened us. The feds already came in my house two times and threatened me,
saying that if I didn’t leave, they were going to confiscate all of my
possessions,” he added. “I told them I didn’t have anywhere to go but they
don’t want to hear it.”

“There hasn’t been a single person
who has been re-settled by government agencies –not a single person,” Moreira
explained, contradicting government claims that it would assist certain small
farmers as part of its “agrarian reform” policy.

Another local farmer, Mamede Jordao,
said a federal officer had threatened to take him in a helicopter and throw him
out if he continued to speak out against the evictions.

The communities’ were also forced to
leave all of their dead behind in graveyards that includes plots decades old.

Combined, residents of the area also
owned hundreds of thousands of cows. Now they have nowhere to put them.

Much livestock was left behind, too,
as locals tried to save whatever animals – dogs, cats, chickens – that they
could take with them to their new refugee camp “homes.”

Charity

Some help has arrived.

Christian preachers from hundreds of
miles away have been gathering tons of food and assistance from their
congregations to ship to the displaced victims.

Concerned citizens throughout the
region have been donating, too. And towns in the area have tried their best to
help shelter as many families as possible with the few resources available to
them.

At least one local businessman has
also promised to donate some land so people can rebuild their homes and try to
eke out a meager living from the soil once again.

One of the town people found
temporary refuge in Alto da Boa Vista, where Mayor Nezip Domingues promised to
help despite his people’s lack of resources.

He thanked all of the concerned
citizens in the region who sent assistance.

“In truth, if it was not for the
actions that these groups and society are taking – they are so moved by the
situation in Siua Missu – we don’t know what we would have done,” Domingues
said in a TV interview.

“Our municipality does not have the
resources to attend to these necessities, so we’re thankful from our hearts for
everybody who has helped these families,” he added.

Sources told WND that the people
would be eternally grateful to God and to the pastors and congregations for the
help being provided by Christians in the region.

However, the refugees also feel a
sense of humiliation. Once independent, they now must depend on donations just
to feed their own children.

Hope

Locals are still petitioning the
government to undo the relocation, which they say has shattered thousands of
lives, by returning the land and offering compensation for the loss of their
houses.

A few still cling to a small ray of
hope, thinking God may intervene or that the federal government will realize
the error of its ways.

“There’s a small ray of hope, but it
exists,” farmer Romão Flor told TV Araguaia in an interview after detailing the
miserable living conditions evicted residents are suffering.

“However, the government is very
strong, the Indian agency is very strong, the pressure from foreign interests
is very strong, and the NGOs are very strong,” he said.

“It won’t be easy.”

Others, however, have all but given
up after seeing what remains of their former hardscrabble towns and homes.

“I just got back from there, to see
what had become of [the town of] Posto da Mata. It’s over,” sobbed a young
mother and small farmer named Maria da Costa from her new “home” in a school
gym, shared by eight other families. She broke down into tears before finishing
her thought.

An elderly woman next to her, also
crying, added: “They destroyed our people. Our whole world is destroyed.”

The lands

Brazilian officials told WND that
the land in question had traditionally been occupied by the Xavante Indian
tribe, which was expelled from nearby areas in the 1960s by government forces
so settlers could move in.

However, numerous documents obtained
by WND, and testimony from Xavante Indians, show that the tribe never occupied
the land in question.

One Xavante Indian, for example,
speaking at a local rally, blasted FUNAI for seizing the lands, saying the
agency was operating at the expense of Indians and expropriating property in
their name, but that it was not interested in the truth.

“They know that the Xavantes live in
the cerrado (savannah-type region as opposed to forest) and that you’re living
here,” the elderly Indian exclaimed.

“Now, help,” he continued, pointing
his finger in the faces of some government officials at the gathering. “Give
back everything you’ve stolen from the Indians and from the whole human race.”

Turning to the crowd again, he
concluded: “We want to stay in our place, and you stay in yours.”

A Brazilian congressional delegation
that visited the area quoted four Xavantes who all said the same thing: Their
tribe has never lived in the area in question.

FUNAI itself admitted as much in the
1970s, twice, when asked by a large landowner for development purposes to
certify that no Indians had ever lived there.

The tribe, which consists of around
14,000 members and already has about 3.5 million acres of land in Mato Grosso,
was offered a better piece of land by the state government to avoid the forced
evictions.

The real reasons

While it is remains unclear whether
the U.N. was involved in the most recent forced eviction, the actions are in
line with an international agreement on indigenous people, analysts say.

Local rancher Sebastian Prado told
reporters that authorities were essentially running an extortion racket seeking
millions of dollars in exchange for halting the land grab.

Upon speaking out, he was personally
attacked by a top federal official.

“Mr. Sebastian Prado will be
prosecuted for his lies against Secretary Paulo Maldos and will pay in the
courts for his folly and irresponsibility,” Chief Minister Gilberto Carvalho
with the General Secretariat of the President said in a press release.

Numerous other possible motives,
however, have also been identified.

Among the most frequently cited:
pressure from foreign NGOs like Greenpeace and religious persecution of the
conservative and devout evangelical communities there by powerful Catholic
“liberation theology” forces.

Victims and analysts who spoke with
WND also identified as a probable cause the effort to advance socialism in
Brazil and the broader region by eroding property rights and attacking
independent citizens like farmers and ranchers, a process that is already well
underway in Latin America led in large part by senior PT officials.

Finally, mega-corporations from
abroad and foreign governments hoping to extract rare minerals have been cited
as well.

United Nations agreement

A little-known U.N. agreement dubbed
the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People,” approved by the global
body’s General Assembly in 2007, has been cited as a justification for
expropriating the land.

While the U.S. originally rejected
the controversial U.N. scheme, which purports to require the surrender of lands
“traditionally” occupied by natives, President Obama signed on to it in late
2010.

Last year, in a move that drew a mix
of ridicule and alarm from critics, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of
Indigenous People James Anaya visited the U.S.

He concluded, among other points,
that Mount Rushmore and vast tracts of land should be returned to Native
Americans to put the U.S. government closer to compliance with the global
agreement.

Several lawmakers contacted by WND
were aware of the situation in Brazil, but none were willing to comment
publicly about it at this time.

Still, analysts say that with the
U.N. and authoritarian-minded governments seeking to exploit past injustices
against indigenous people to advance their agenda, the danger will continue to
grow – at least without international pressure on Brazilian authorities, who
are desperately trying to polish their image on the global stage.

Socialism

The march of socialism in Latin
America, meanwhile, continues, backed by foreign powers and largely under the
radar of the Western media.

It is making great progress through
the Foro de São Paulo (FSP), a shadowy socialist and communist political
organization founded by former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva
with the PT, Marxist despot Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas and others.

Marxist narco-terror groups like the
FARC have also been intimately involved in the group, including by providing
funding from the drug trade to advance the cause.

Today, political parties that are
part of the FSP, such as the Brazilian PT, control most national governments in
Latin America. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, for example, is a prominent
participant, as are other, less-known socialist strongmen.

Current Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff, a “former” communist guerrilla and revolutionary, is also playing an
increasingly important in the network.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Will
legal same-sex marriage result in religious persecution?

Bryana
Johnson

DALLAS, January 25, 2013 — Earlier this month, 1,067 UK
priests, bishops and abbots created a significant stir when they signed what is
being called one of the largest open
letters ever produced
in British political history.

The letter was issued as a warning
against the legalization of same-sex marriage. Such a development may spark
religious persecution against Catholics, who oppose same-sex marriage based on
the tenets of their faith, cautioned the multitude of priests.

The letter comes as British Prime
Minister David Cameron has announced his intentions to push through a bill
legalizing same-sex marriage in the UK by the end of the month.

“The natural complementarity
between a man and a woman leads to marriage, seen as a lifelong partnership,” the clergymen declared in their statement. “This
loving union – because of their physical complementarity – is open to bringing
forth and nurturing children. This is what marriage is. That is why marriage is
only possible between a man and a woman.”

“Legislation for same-sex
marriage, should it be enacted, will have many legal consequences, severely
restricting the ability of Catholics to teach the truth about marriage in their
schools, charitable institutions or places of worship,” they went on to warn. Those who signed the
letter make up about one-fourth of all the Catholic clergy in Britain.

Regardless of where we stand on the
issue of same-sex marriage, it’s important for us to determine whether or not
this statement is backed by evidence and by the collective experience of states
and nations that have already enshrined homosexual marriage in law. Surely the
rights and religious liberties of the proponents of traditional marriage must
be protected even as same-sex partnerships become more widespread and more
widely accepted.

Is truth on the side of the UK clergy
and should Christian people be taking a warning from their words? Is
legalization of same-sex marriage a doorway into an era of universal goodwill
and harmony? Or is it merely a sign that a new form of bigotry is at hand – a
bigotry of hatred and violence unleashed against the traditional family and its
supporters?

The obvious question is, have
opponents of same-sex marriage suffered persecution and loss of religious
liberty in other countries that have embraced this radical redefinition of
marriage? The answer is in no way elusive. Let’s take a look at a little very
recent history.

“Tolerance”
in Brazil

Last week, members of the Catholic
Plinio Correa de Olivera Institute gathered in the Brazilian city of Curitiba to protest
abortion and the homosexual ideology and stand in support of the traditional
family. Homosexuality has been legal in Brazil since 1830 and enjoys widespread
acceptance in that
country.

However, the Catholic demonstrators,
who marched peacefully and carried signs, were not greeted with tolerance and acceptance.
In fact, an angry mob soon gathered around them and began yelling threats and
making obscene gestures. The Catholics were spat upon and one of them had an
object thrown at his head which drew blood. As he held up his bloodied hand to
show the camera, the crowd cheered. These incidents were caught on camera by the Institute and by an onlooker sympathetic to the unruly mob.

In 2007, the Brazilian Association
of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgender People (ABGLT) filed several
lawsuits against
opponents of the homosexual movement in Brazil. One of these suits targeted the
websites that had just exposed homosexual activist Luiz Mott for his promotion
of pedophilia and pederasty.

Another motion was filed against
psychologist and therapist Rozangela Alves Justino, who provided counseling and
therapy for homosexuals who wished to change their sexual orientation. Because
Brazil’s Federal Council of Psychologists prohibited psychologists from
performing reparative therapy for homosexuality, the ABGLT asked that Alves
Justino’s license be revoked.

Several years ago, Christian
pro-life writer Julio Severo fled Brazil after charges were reportedly filed against him for his
“homophobic” coverage of Brazil’s 2006 Gay Pride parade. Severo left the
country abruptly with his pregnant wife and two small children. At the time,
there was still no official law in Brazil criminalizing “homophobic” behavior.

In February of 2009, LifeSiteNews reported that, “the Brazilian government has
determined that 99% of its citizens are ‘homophobic,’ and therefore must be
reeducated.” According to Brazilian newspaper O Globo, the
federal government of Brazil intended to use the data from the study to “plan
new policies.” Those new policies were implemented in May 2012, when the senate
in Brazil passed a law criminalizing ‘homophobia.’

In the summer of 2012, Julio Severo interviewed Brazilian Christian psychologist Marisa Lobo,
who said that the Brazilian Federal Council of Psychology pressured
and terrorized homosexuals who were looking for help in overcoming their unwanted
same-sex attractions. Marisa was also attacked by the Council when she
questioned the “gay kit” that the Brazilian government attempted to distribute
to students in public schools for the purpose of fighting “homophobia.” Due to
explicit content in the kit and its favorable portrayal of homosexual behavior,
the program was eventually suspended by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

“When they learned that [I was]
a Christian, they began to persecute me,” Marisa explained, “as a psychologist who categorizes herself as a
Christian, and later in the process as a homophobe, because I said on Twitter
that I love gays, but I prefer for my child to be heterosexual. And I still
don’t understand why having an opinion instigates violence.”

It seems that the range of tolerated
activity in Brazil is fairly narrow, despite decades of campaigns by same-sex
marriage advocates against “hate” and “bullying” and “harassment.” And it is
becoming increasingly evident that Christian family virtues are not included in
the group of “tolerable” ideas.

“Diversity”
and “Freedom of Speech” in Canada

Canada Day in Ontario last year was marked by a disturbing incident when Rev. David Lynn
and a small group of friends attended the Toronto Gay Pride Parade. Setting up
a small stand on a street corner with a microphone and a video camera, Lynn
preached, held conversations with passers-by, and handed out Bibles and tracts
– that is, until Toronto police wearing LGBT rainbow stickers shut him down and
forced him to vacate the area. Ignoring the profanity and violent behavior of
angry parade attendees and demonstrators who verbally assaulted the group and
even doused Lynn and his cameraman with water, police told Lynn he was
"promoting hate" and must leave. Videos of the incident are available
here and here and here.

It seems only certain forms of free
speech are protected in Canada nowadays. Criticism of homosexuality, even
peaceful and motivated by loving concern, isn’t one of them.

When the Toronto District School
Board revealed their new “anti-homophobia curriculum” in 2011 (Challenging
Homophobia and Heterosexism: A K-12 Curriculum), many people were understandably disturbed.
Naturally, things only got worse when the news came out that parents would not
be able to opt their kids out of the program – not even their kindergarteners.
Teachers would also not be permitted to decline to teach the course based on
religious convictions.

It seems only certain brands of
diverse thought are encouraged in Canada nowadays. Christian family virtues
aren’t among them.

The curriculum taught students that “you
can’t choose to be gay or straight, but you can choose to come out.” In 3rd
grade, it is recommended that students read the book Gloria Goes to Gay
Pride. Students are encouraged to have their own “Pride Parade” in their
school.

Unfortunately, most real-life Pride
Parades are scarcely suitable for elementary school children.

The disturbing and seemingly
totalitarian approach embraced by the Toronto District is but a foretaste of
what lies ahead, suggests an education minister in the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Truss, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Department for
Education, warned in November that school teachers could be
punished for not teaching pro-gay topics, should the British government follow
through with plans to redefine marriage.

More
Instances of Love and Acceptance

The adoption agency Catholic
Charities has been systemically shutting down its branches in various states throughout the
US, following a series of bitter legal disputes over the agency’s right to
refuse to place children with homosexual couples. Similar laws have also forced
church-affiliated agencies in Britain, such as Catholic Care, to separate from their churches or shut down
entirely.

In January 2012, a New Jersey judgeruled against a
Christian retreat house
that refused to allow a same-sex civil union ceremony to be conducted on its
premises, ruling that the Constitution allows “some intrusion into
religious freedom to balance other important societal goals.” Last
September, a gay couple
filed suit against two
Illinois institutions that refused to host their civil union. Christian “Bed
and Breakfast”
establishments, which are often family-owned businesses, have been especially
targeted by homosexual rights activists for this type of harassment.

In Ladele and McFarlane v.
United Kingdom, plaintiffs Lillian Ladele and Gary McFarlane were fired from their places of work for declining to
perform services involving same-sex partnerships and counseling. Ladele, a
marriage registrar for Islington Council in London, “was disciplined after
she asked to be exempt from registering same-sex civil partnerships.”
McFarlane was a counselor who was fired after he “declined to unequivocally
commit to provide same-sex couples with psycho-sexual therapy.” They
appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, but the court refused to hear
their case.

The
Significance for the Future of Religious Liberty

"It seems that a religious
bar to office has been created, whereby a Christian who wishes to act on their
Christian beliefs on marriage will no longer be able to work in a great number
of environments,” commented
Andrea Williams, the Director of the Christian Legal Centre.

Certainly this is a tragic remark
and one that signals a gloomy answer to the question of whether or not the legalization
of same-sex marriage will result in a loss of religious liberty. It is, of
course, unfair of homosexual activists to expect people of faith to cast away
their creeds and their dear, cherished ideals. But these activists make
themselves odious indeed to civilized people when they force dissenters to
violate their codes of morality and their very consciences by endorsing and
promoting a lifestyle they consider abhorrent.

If the aim of legalizing same-sex
marriage is, as we are so often told, to eradicate intolerance and bigotry,
surely its activists should be alarmed to find that their efforts have been
entirely unsuccessful. However, as shocking as it may seem, the advocates of
same-sex marriage are proving repeatedly that they only endorse the toleration
of one view and only believe in the protection of one speech – their own.

Monday, January 21, 2013

US
Supreme Court Genocidal Law Confronted by Major Pro-Life Decision of Alabama
Supreme Court

By Julio
Severo

The Alabama
Supreme Court ruled last week that a law that protects people from chemical endangerment
is also applicable to unborn babies. The state court decision showed that unborn
babies are endowed with personhood and they deserve respect.

Such a decision,
which is having repercussions in America and provoking the wrath from the Left,
collides with the US Supreme Court, which legalized abortion in the infamous Roe
vs. Wade in 1973.

The Alabama case,
which is casting doubts on the legitimacy on the federal protection of
abortion, involved a woman that smoked meth three days before her baby was born,
who lived for only a few minutes. The autopsy showed that the baby died from
methamphetamine exposure.

In her defense, her
lawyers argued that if it is not a crime to abort a baby, it is not crime to
expose him to dangerous drugs.

According to the
abortion law that is in force for forty years, if the drug-user mother availed
herself of the murderous services of an abortion clinic, she would face no
legal problems, because in America abortion is allowed in every month of
pregnancy, even on the day of childbirth.

The major
decision of the Alabama court against the woman that killed her son outside abortion
hospitals and clinics may give a light of hope in a nation that for years championed
world Protestantism, but today boasts of championing the “abortion gospel” in
the UN and throughout world.

After legalization
on January 22, 1973, 55 million American babies were murdered, for all conceivable
reasons and even without a reason. It is by far the largest act of genocide
committed in American soil.

More than three
thousand children are murdered a day, and the pro-abortion president does not offer
a single sigh of condolence for the victims of an American government more and
more obsessed with playing the role of a world ambassador of the culture of
death.

America is today
a society accustomed to the genocide of the innocent. The massive salvage
slaughter of unborn babies is equated with nothing more than the extraction of
a decayed tooth.

This year, pro-abortion
groups will celebrate 40 years of legal abortion in America. It is the most
macabre birthday in all the American history.

The attitude of
the Alabama court of restoring the dignity of personhood to unborn babies dying
of drug exposure may be a first important step in confronting the Supreme Court
with its shameful genocidal law.

The only way of
stopping that insanity is for the US Supreme Court to see what the Alabama court
saw: If it is a crime to expose any citizen, inside or outside the uterus, to dangerous
drugs, it should be a crime to kill not only people outside the uterus, but
also inside it.

If such understanding
spreads and prevails, the insane American law should be revoked, the shedding
of innocent blood should stop and Americans should repent and mourn the fact
that for decades they have allowed, approved and consented the genocide of the
innocent.

The Alabama Supreme
Court has taken an important step against the federal abortion giant.

Let us pray that
God may transform that small step in a mortal blow in the giant.

Let us pray for
the Alabama Supreme Court, especially Justice Tom Parker, and its fight of pro-life
David against the pro-abortion Goliath, the US Supreme Court.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

20
Resolutions for Pro-Family Advocates Battling the ‘Gay’ and Transgender Agenda
in 2013

It’s time to get beyond defensive, naive and just plain bad
thinking in the face of aggressive and deceitful homosexual activism…

Peter LaBarbera

Today we begin a 20-part AFTAH
series offering resolutions for “Culture Warriors” and everyday Americans who
oppose the highly organized and well-funded LGBT agenda. For you novices out
there, ‘LGBT’ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender – the modern
sin movement built around the affirmation of deviant (homosexual) sex and
gender confusion.

Each day, AFTAH will publish an
essay explicating a “resolution” that addresses a bad intellectual habit
or “gay” talking point that many well-intended Americans have fallen for —
e.g., indulging in the false guilt that is aggressively cultivated by our
adversaries. We will expose the lies, leftist tactics and erroneous thinking
that are at the root of people’s ideological and spiritual compromise in the
face of ardent “gay” activism.

What follows is a
rough list of our resolutions for the New Year. There will be some
overlap, but each entry stands alone as an answer to erroneous thinking
that buys into homosexual activist canards. Please pass them on to your
friends, family members, and co-workers; they are intended for anyone who is
worn down by society’s ubiquitous “gay”-affirming propaganda. Let’s face it: we
all are affected by media manipulation on the homosexual issue and need to get
back to confidently defending what’s right.

Editor’s Note regarding AFTAH’s
Christian rhetoric: Americans
For Truth is an openly Christian organization, perhaps more so than most
pro-family groups. So we do use Scripture and even mention Jesus Christ in our
work. However, the moral and practical principles we espouse are generally
universal and have wide appeal — even for the agnostic who is moral-minded and
recognizes that homosexuality is unnatural and should not be encouraged by
governmental and cultural elites. AFTAH is supported by people of all religions
and no religion, and we welcome anybody who agrees with our mission of
returning to wholesome sexuality in (real, man-woman) marriage.

I hope you benefit from AFTAH’s
resolutions. This list can be expanded upon, so we invite you to send us your
own ideas; send your e-mail to: americansfortruth@gmail.com. May the Lord help you to speak out boldly for
the Truth — in genuine, God-fearing love — in 2013! – Peter LaBarbera, www.AFTAH.org

1) Get OFF the defense, and back
on offense – (get rid of that false guilt and incapacitating ambivalence; YOU are defending Truth; homosexual
activists are promoting immorality, self-deception and lies).

2) Follow God and not man (shore up your biblical beliefs) – do you fear
God or the reaction of people?

4) Get back to the BEHAVIOR and
its consequences (try Googling
“MSM [men who have sex with men], CDC [the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention], HIV” or “MSM, CDC, Syphilis”…)

5) Get off the opponents’ playing
field: it starts with restoring honest language in the debate. (e.g, counterfeit homosexual “marriage” is not
equal to the real deal, so the “gay” term “Marriage Equality” is spurious).

12) [Related to #3] Think for
yourself and don’t rely on FOX News to defend the Truth on homosexuality (e.g., did you know that Bill O’Reilly has
pretty much switched sides?).

13) Call out the liberal media and
educational establishment on their routine pro-homosexual and
anti-Christian bias.

14) Educate a libertarian – on the clear and present threat that all
pro-LGBT laws (including legalized homosexual “marriage”) pose to civil
liberties and religious freedom.

15) Educate a pro-lifer about the
threat of the far-reaching homosexual-bisexual-transgender agenda (many pro-lifers are naive or ignorant about
the homosexual agenda and its many parallels to their core concern).

19) Patiently engage a young
person on the “H” issue: are
they entitled to reinvent centuries of Judeo-Christian tradition and teaching
on love, relationships, family, and marriage? (Answer: no, but we first need to
understand the cultural zeitgeist through which they view the world — and the
steady stream of LGBT misinformation they are imbibing — before we can respond
to it).

20) Reserve your greatest outrage
for those who affirm homosexuality in the name of God – i.e., religious “gay”
advocates (“gay Christianity”
is a sham and they must be held to a higher standard).

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Socialism
and High Taxes: Did Russia Learn Its Lesson?

Russian
President Vladimir Putin giving a Russian passport to French actor Gerard
Depardieu made international headlines this week.

Gerard Depardieu and Russian president

The actor is
abandoning France because socialist president François Hollande plans to
increase his taxes from 41 percent to 75 percent.

In Russia, there
is a flat tax of only 13 percent, an unimaginably low levy for a
nation that formerly was a communist power that used its citizens as mere
slaves, without rights and freedom.

An American
lawyer recently told me that the Russian tax rate is much lower than the
American one, which ranges up to 39.5 percent.

According to
him, the Russians’ problem involves corruption and transparency issues.
Nevertheless, he pointed out that while Russia is experiencing gradual
improvements, the situation in America is deteriorating visibly.

The supposed
absence of corruption in the American government is based on the premise that,
for example, if the White House decides to invest billions in the
worldwide promotion and imposition of abortion and homosexuality, nobody will
divert the money for other purposes. And the American government has really
been making those colossal investments, in spite of the economic crisis that is
devastating the former land of the brave and free, and formerly
— with emphasis on formerly — the country of low taxes.

Even as she
loses her economic power, America seems determined to use her policies of high
taxation to invest the last cent of her citizens’ blood in the
international promotion of abortion and homosexual tyranny, as shown in this
video: http://youtu.be/_iQMcrC_L8I

Russia has
been taking the opposite course. Today, the nation defends moral and
family values more than any other at the UN. In her domestic policies, Russian
society is almost entirely opposed to the homosexual propaganda, a
Western-imported product affecting every aspect of life in Brazil.

In spite of the
corruption in Russia, there is a strong irony in the French actor’s case.
Thirty years ago, people fled from Russia to escape communist control over
their lives, families and work. Some took refuge in France and many chose
America.

However, everything
has changed. Today, France, America and even Brazil adore socialism, high
taxes, abortion and sodomy, while Russia, with all her imperfections, is moving
away from these evils.

With the current
extravagantly high taxes in America and France, and with the American
obsession to homosexualize the world, there is little hope for a positive
change. But Russia, with her low taxes and her defense of family values, offers
indications of hope.